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Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

By : Alvin Ashcraft
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Book Image

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

5 (1)
By: Alvin Ashcraft

Overview of this book

.NET has included managed threading capabilities since the beginning, but early techniques had inherent risks: memory leaks, thread synchronization issues, and deadlocks. This book will help you avoid those pitfalls and leverage the modern constructs available in .NET 6 and C# 10, while providing recommendations on patterns and best practices for parallelism and concurrency. Parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming are part of every .NET application today, and it becomes imperative for modern developers to understand how to effectively use these techniques. This book will teach intermediate-level .NET developers how to make their applications faster and more responsive with parallel programming and concurrency in .NET and C# with practical examples. The book starts with the essentials of multi-threaded .NET development and explores how the language and framework constructs have evolved along with .NET. You will later get to grips with the different options available today in .NET 6, followed by insights into best practices, debugging, and unit testing. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of why, when, and how to employ parallelism and concurrency in any .NET application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Threading in .NET
6
Part 2: Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C#
12
Part 3: Advanced Concurrency Concepts

Basics of async and await

When the TPL was introduced in .NET Framework 4.5, C# 5.0 also added language support for task-based asynchronous programming with the async and await keywords. This immediately became the default method of implementing asynchronous workflows in C# and .NET. Now, 10 years later, async/await and the TPL have become an integral part of building robust, scalable .NET applications. You might be wondering why it is so important to adopt async programming in your applications.

Understanding the async keyword

There are many reasons for writing async code. If you’re writing server-side code on a web server, using async allows the server to handle additional requests while your code is awaiting a long-running operation. On a client application, freeing the UI thread to perform other operations with async code allows your UI to remain responsive to users.

Another important reason to adopt async programming in .NET is that many third-party and open source...